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...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...registered with the Pewterers’ Company and any maker found to be selling substandard wares risked losing their mark and being unable to trade,” notes Angus Patterson, senior curator of metalwork at the V&...
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...In 1969, Collingwood became the first living weaver to show at the V&A when a series of his rugs and wall hangings went on display alongside the work of potter Hans Coper....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Likewise Colin Farrell, an actor with the looks of an Adonis who can radiate masculine vulnerability like no other actor on the screen....
...When curators from the Victoria & Albert Museum visited, they selected, along with five other pieces, a miniature replica of the bed made for cats that will go into the collection of V&A East, which opens...
...It’s a destination for high-end, investment-level kimonos, three of which feature in the V&A’s show....
...There are leather-lined silver bowls and boxes from San Lorenzo, the Milanese silver specialist whose work sits in the permanent collection at the V&A; ebony-edged maple-wood trays and picture frames from...
...“Millinery and bows have a long interconnected history,” explains Oriole Cullen, the V&A’s fashion and textiles director, who is currently completing its major retrospective Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams...
...But on the front page of Libero, the English journalist Nicholas Farrell said “the tide is shifting . . . against Germany and tyranny”....
...However, Brian Farrell, THQ’s chief executive, was bullish when I met him at E3....
...“V-shaped” recoveries, in which employment comes roaring back, take place only when there’s a lot of pent-up demand....
...An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain Or …60 Years of Making the Same Stupid Mistakes as Always By John O’Farrell Doubleday Press, £18.99 This satirical romp through 20th-century Britain focusing...
...The V&A has teamed up with Wild and Wolf, a gift company, to create a range of household tools and gardening implements decorated with Morris designs....
...The programme is not yet final but expect the likes of V.S....
...Not because it revived ancient rivalries - only Newport-Gwent v Leicester of the four opening crossborder ties did that - but because of their similarity as clubs....
...And this means that until the Democrats rethink or repackage their proudest achievements - the welfare state, healthcare, the Voting Rights Act and, by association, Roe v....
...Perhaps this all puts John O’Farrell’s recent and much-maligned rallying email to Labour supporters into a bit of perspective. Maybe it is time for emotional blackmail after all....
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